Cisco Beware! Huawei Plans a Data Center Push

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei has plans to invade the enterprise IT market according to a research note out this morning from Deutsche Bank. An analyst at the firm expects the company to introduce a line of servers, low-end switches, security, VoIP and storage products designed for the enterprise before the end of this year. Huawei recently reported $2 billion in revenue from the enterprise and organized the company into three operating segments: carrier, enterprise and devices.

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Global telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. expects revenue from its enterprise division to increase eightfold over the next three to five years as it takes advantage of new growth opportunities emerging from cloud computing, a senior company executive told Dow Jones Newswires.

In a departure from its main focus on network infrastructure, the Chinese company said it is reorganising its business around four major areas - network infrastructure, enterprise business, devices, and other. Enterprise sales are expected to double to $4 billion in 2011 and hit $15 billion in three to five years, said William Xu, executive vice president of Huawei and president of Huawei Enterprise Business.

We are now entering a new era in which telecommunication and IT industry are integrated.In this new era, IT can totally change the development of an enterprise.Based on the understanding of customer requirements, Huawei provides technologically-advanced server products and competitive solutions, which helps customers make profit continuously.Currently, Huawei has released TecalTM T8000 blade servers and R series rack servers into the market. These products help in telecommunication and internet operations, and energy industry. By using the products, Huawei helps users to handle the technical difficulties in saving energy, improving performance, and developing new architecture.

Will one of the biggest change in IT hardware be the arrival of China’s companies?